Raw Materials
It takes four months to build a Cabot Guns 1911 pistol. Our process starts with details and exacting attention to the raw materials we employ. We disregarded how anyone else in the industry builds a 1911 and do it our way.
Raw Materials
Step 1. Toss aside the industry norm of starting with a casting or forged frame and slide.
We threw industry standards out the windows when it came to raw materials. Unlike other 1911 manufacturers we dismissed starting with castings or forgings when it came to making our extreme precision frames and slides.
Step 2. The Unrelenting Pursuit for the Best Steel
Cabot Guns start from solid blocks of 4140 billet steel to metallurgical specified material content.
Step. 3. 100% American Steel
Using the Buy American Act we employ source origination tracing to ensure the source and origination of our raw materials. Our philosophy is be build a 100% American made product and we ensure that every aspect of our guns originates in the USA.
Step 4. Quality Control
A sophisticated and grueling quality control processes is undertaken with every component of our 1911 handgun. It’s necessary when every part we make is a clone of the last. Starting with our raw materials, ultrasonic testing is undertaken to examine the 4140 billet for impurities, inconsistencies or hair-line cracks. Less than perfect? Scrap it!
Step 5. Enhancing Raw Materials
We enhance and strengthen our raw materials with both heating and freezing treatments. This is the same technology employed in the tool and die tool industry to produce millions of parts and developed over decades to perfection by metallurgical experts. The same treatment is applied to further hardening the slabs of steel we use to make Cabot Guns. And we just don’t do it homogeneously, we also harden our slides and frames to different Rockwell levels Because that’s the best way to do it.
And that’s what we do even before we start building your gun …
Yes. We offer the world’s first “post custom.” Our term. Cabot 1911′s are not just another pistol. Never ever. We’ve been living this creation for years. Cabot 1911’s are a new standard of quality never seen before in the gun world.
And, we dare say, a perfect fit. The frame and slide are manufactured to fit more accurately than can be done by the human hand. In fact, the tightness of our fit is 0.001 inches. This is our own long-earned and long-invested proprietary technology.
With attitude and pedigree. That’s how we approached the manufacture of our 1911 guns along with a refusal to settle for anything less than the best of both. Specifically, we challenged America’s top engineers, machinists and master craftsmen to build the perfect precision handgun from scratch without compromise and what resulted is a superior collection of 1911 pistols made from only the finest of materials, technology and minds that this great country has to offer.
Shooting a Cabot Pistol, Brian "Gunny Zins" wins the 2012 NRA National Pistol Championship in the first year a Cabot Gun debuts at the competition.
It’s simple. Every one of our 1911 pistols exceed national match standards right “out of the box.” Less simple is what that took to achieve: The parts on every frame and slide production run are inspected by a coordinate measuring machine accurate to 40 millionth of an inch to confirm the aerospace tolerance fit of our guns. When the all-time greatest bullseye pistol marksman picks a gun to shoot it's a Cabot.